Sterling feared that the entire scheme was about to be exposed.
The emergency aboard the flight had not been random.
The compromised flight systems had been designed to fail.
The first officer had been deliberately incapacitated so Captain Andrew would be left struggling alone during the crisis.
The intention, investigators concluded, was for the aircraft and potentially the evidence surrounding the fraudulent components to disappear in a catastrophic accident.
But there was another discovery.
One that affected Laura personally.
Years earlier, Sterling had worked with a defense contractor responsible for